Show minas ARE chosid DO AND CITI IN ID DARKNESS heavy snowfall at bue blate causes almost total suspension of business flood situation alarming butte bulte mont eight inches of snow enow on tile the level washed into slush shish by a driving rain that sot set in at daylight cut oh off butte from the outside world ou on friday telegraphic communication was not restored until noon overhead vowel power wires were so eo badly y tangled with light wires that mayor corby would not allow either street car or light power to be turned on hence the city was in darkness and no cars were running on friday night tho the mines are also alao closed down the railway situation east of mag mla soula boula Is serious the northern pacific has not moved a train between mis is soula eoula and helena or butte since monday and it probably will be weeks before the damage to the track can bo be fully repaired allies of the new ro roadbed ad of the st paul road east of here have been swept away and it Is es estimated tl that tt it will require more than a month to repair the damage from this source the northern pacific has assembled on this division all al of tho the pile drivers from the west that it can get it has taken irom atom its own western alons and has borrowed fro from in other roads the fight against the waters la Is being carried on by ten thousand me men n but the water Is gaining steadily and the rain continues to fall in torrents |